You can only experience heartbreaking loss after heartbreaking loss in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for so long before the fans start to lose faith, and after their sweep at the hands of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second round this year, it appears that’s where some fans of the Washington Capitals are now.
Some Washington Capitals Fans Believe Bruce Boudreau Should Be Gone
To be sure, Bruce Boudreau isn’t “The Problem” with the Washington Capitals. When a franchise suffers soul-crushing defeats in three-consecutive springs (or four, depending upon how easily one’s soul is crushed), there’s plenty of blame to go around. But, as the old sports cliché goes, you can’t fire all the players, so it’s usually the guy calling the shots who takes the fall. And in this case, that would probably be fair. Bruce Boudreau is a good coach and a great guy. But, for whatever reason, he’s never been able to consistently extract from this Caps team a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts when it’s mattered most. It’s time to find someone who can.
We’ll have to wait and see whether or not general manager George McPhee and owner Ted Leonsis agree with the assessment.
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